Vaajakoski is a district of
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...
,
Finland
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and the centre of
Vaajakoski-Jyskä ward. It is located seven kilometres from the city centre on the Northern end of lake
Päijänne, where it is bordered by
Jyskä to the west,
Sulunperä and
Kaunisharju to the north,
Tölskä to the west and
Haapaniemi to the south. As of January 2012 the population of Vaajakoski district was 1503.
In spoken language the name Vaajakoski is used to describe big parts of Vaajakoski-Jyskä ward.
Gallery
File:Kakaravaara.JPG, Semi-detached houses of Kakaravaara in Northern Vaajakoski
File:Vaajakosken koulu3.jpg, Vaajakoski Junior Highschool
File:Vaajakosken kirkko 1.JPG, Interior of Vaajakoski Lutheran Church
File:Baptist Church Vaajakoski.jpg, Vaajakoski Baptist Church
File:Wessmanninmäki 2.jpg, Wesmanninmäki
File:Jyväskylä Vaajakoski Haapatie.jpg, A street view to Haapatie
References
External links
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Wessmanni, a local Newspaper in Vaajakoski
Neighbourhoods of Jyväskylä
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